Hello,
I'm Tony, I found this forum researching cooking surfaces, after almost getting conned by the vermiculite youtubers..... This forum is amazing, so much information to consume!
I'm looking at doing a 75cm, 2" homebrew cast, with 40mm ceramic fibre blanket, 2" Perlite insulation, with a stucco shell, on a 3" reinforced hearth. Bottom insulation will be 100mm perlite 5:1, I haven't found surface bricks yet but looking for something around 40-50mm deep.
I have an old (35 years) brick grill stand that I was hoping to "extend" to become the hearth stand. It's 108cm wide which is pretty much perfect, but it needs more depth.
I'm a bit tight on finances and time, so I was hoping to get away with re-using this. I know it's better to over-build this, I get it, and I would love to do it.... but it turns into a much bigger project.
Anyway, here are some photos of the grill stand, and a template showing the brickwork. The red bricks are the existing structure, and the yellow are the new bricks. The 2 yellow bricks at the front are above existing structure, 3 bricks high...
So my question (or three) is.... is this thing going to hold up? Am I crazy? Or should I just knock it all down and build something stronger?
Thank you
I'm Tony, I found this forum researching cooking surfaces, after almost getting conned by the vermiculite youtubers..... This forum is amazing, so much information to consume!
I'm looking at doing a 75cm, 2" homebrew cast, with 40mm ceramic fibre blanket, 2" Perlite insulation, with a stucco shell, on a 3" reinforced hearth. Bottom insulation will be 100mm perlite 5:1, I haven't found surface bricks yet but looking for something around 40-50mm deep.
I have an old (35 years) brick grill stand that I was hoping to "extend" to become the hearth stand. It's 108cm wide which is pretty much perfect, but it needs more depth.
I'm a bit tight on finances and time, so I was hoping to get away with re-using this. I know it's better to over-build this, I get it, and I would love to do it.... but it turns into a much bigger project.
Anyway, here are some photos of the grill stand, and a template showing the brickwork. The red bricks are the existing structure, and the yellow are the new bricks. The 2 yellow bricks at the front are above existing structure, 3 bricks high...
So my question (or three) is.... is this thing going to hold up? Am I crazy? Or should I just knock it all down and build something stronger?
Thank you
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